Tricking a vibe coder?
Maybe we can trick vibe coders into becoming coders?
Read the note Tricking a vibe coder?Archive of 2025
Vibe Coding vs. Vibe Engineering?
🤔 Interesting read-up on how to incorporate coding agents and testing into a software project: I proposed “vibe engineering” as the grown up version of vibe coding, where expert programmers use coding agents in a professional and responsible way to produce high quality, reliable results. The journey of Emil Stenström is really interesting, as it…
Read the note Vibe Coding vs. Vibe Engineering?Why do companies keep forking VSCode to build AI IDEs?
Well, they had to do it, to break out of the plugin sandbox to get a real agentic system: But having a sandbox also keeps the AI from doing really bad stuff — like deleting a hard drive:
Read the note Why do companies keep forking VSCode to build AI IDEs?Steve Jobs on why owning a product matters in engineering
Check out this quote from Steve Jobs, talking about consulting: Without owning something over an extended period of time—like a few years—where one has a chance to take responsibility for one’s recommendations, where one has to see one’s recommendations through all action stages, and accumulate scar tissue from the mistakes, and pick oneself up off…
Read the note Steve Jobs on why owning a product matters in engineeringRichard Sutton, father of RL, thinks LLMs are a dead end
Interview by Dwarkesh Patel with Richard Sutton on LLMs, AGI and why he believes AGI will not be born from using LLMs. In his essay The Bitter Lesson, he argues for not building AI from mimicking human behavior in our systems: “breakthrough progress eventually arrives by an opposing approach based on scaling computation by search…
Read the note Richard Sutton, father of RL, thinks LLMs are a dead endSolving a Million-Step LLM Task with Zero Errors
Wow! Doing Towers of Hanoi by LLM is something that can be done, by voting on small tasks.
Read the note Solving a Million-Step LLM Task with Zero ErrorsHow AWS is losing the younger generation with complexity
This is an excellent article about why creating an application on AWS can involve so much friction. At Wehkamp, we’ve built our platform on AWS to address some of the same problems:
Read the note How AWS is losing the younger generation with complexityAsync IO in Postgres 18
Postgres 18 is coming. Async IO seems big! Postgres 18 is adding asynchronous i/o. This means faster reads for many use cases. This is also part of a bigger series of performance improvements planned for future Postgres, part of which may be multi-threading. Expect to see more on this in coming versions.
Read the note Async IO in Postgres 18NX get vibe-hacked
Holy moly… et tu, NX? When a programmer runs the hacked version of NX, the malware drops the exploit into their GitHub and runs that code. The malware stole a lot of people’s login keys and, apparently, their crypto wallets. Here’s the novel bit — the malware code doesn’t steal your logins or crypto directly.…
Read the note NX get vibe-hackedVibe Coding without tech knowledge
Hahaha… Alberta makes an excellent point! It all comes back to skill!
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